Snow leopard conservation

Sad end

March 8, 2010 Afghanistan

As humans we’re always looking for the positive in a story. We have to look pretty deep to get a positive from this horrible story from Afghanistan this week. Some conservationists are saying it shows that local Afghans are more protective of snow leopards now – lets hope so. But the sad death of this [...]

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Herdsmen in China sentenced to prison for killing snow leopard

March 8, 2010 China

BBC News has reported the following story. “Two herdsmen have been sentenced to eight and 10 years in prison for killing a snow leopard in northwest China’s Xinjiang region. China’s state news agency Xinhua quoted local authorities saying the men had set a trap after wild animals had been preying on their sheep. When a [...]

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Snow Leopard Network –globally collaborating on the survival of snow leopards in the wild

September 16, 2009 Endangered species

A few weeks ago I did a post on Rana Bayakci,the Program Coordinator for the Snow Leopard Network (SLN) in Seattle, USA and how she worked with Gregor the snow leopard at Woodland Park Zoo before he came to Melbourne where we all fell under his spell. I wanted to share a bit of information [...]

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Snow leopards and "gross national happiness"

June 10, 2009 Bhutan

Bhutan is the tiny Himalayan kingdom east of Nepal and south of China, that invented the idea of “gross national happiness” being as important as “gross national product. With a population of  only 600,000 (mainly Buddhists), the country’s mountains are excellent habitat for the endangered snow leopard. I visited Bhutan recently and spoke to many [...]

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